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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: SPAMKINGDOM#: Empress Ruberta I of Methiant!
« on: May 28, 2018, 12:51:01 pm »
Omada you voting for C or F cuz you didn't scratch out he first one ;v
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: SPAMKINGDOM#: Empress Ruberta I of Methiant!
« on: May 28, 2018, 12:20:21 pm »F Wear ALL THE DRESSES.
Sure thing.
F GO NAKED
This is Methiant, not Betazed ;v
6769
Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Zoology Hurt and Heal: CROC ON
« on: May 28, 2018, 11:59:56 am »
Crocodile - 43
Seal - 24
Axolotl Salamander - 18
Rhino - 22
Ankylosaurus - 26
Sauropod - 13
Tortoise - 25
Seal - 24
Axolotl Salamander - 18
Rhino - 22
Ankylosaurus - 26
Sauropod - 13
Tortoise - 25
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: SPAMKINGDOM#: Empress Ruberta I of Methiant!
« on: May 28, 2018, 11:57:16 am »
You buy the stone from the nobleman. Aland smooches the stone floor all the way to the exit in gratitude.
"Lady Empress! Lady Empress, your groom is here!" One of your maids barges into your bedroom as you dress.
Cyl of Cydwyl has finally come! The maid elaborates that he came with an escort of twenty guards in polished and decorated armors and sixty of his personal servants. They've been all assigned rooms in the opposite side of the palace from your quarters.
The wedding is due to happen tomorrow, and of course you cannot meet your beloved till then. How will you dress for this magnaminous occassion?
A) In a traditional Cydwyllian (but still properly luxurious) dress, to impress my soon-to-be husband!
B) In my imperial evening dress - Empress must look like one, and nothing beats a grandiose dress with Imperial coat of arms sewn into it!
C) In a plain but still expensive dress, to go with dynasty's values of modesty.
D) In a exquisite red dress worn by my mother, I will make her proud tomorrow!!
E) In an expensive silver-thread dress adorned with biggest and shiniest of jewels, decorated with pins and accessories of highest quality brass and gold!
F) ALL THE DRESSES!!! Show them how it's done during Eldrican-Cydwyllian wedding in Methiant!!!!!1
1176 AD, Mid-Spring
"Lady Empress! Lady Empress, your groom is here!" One of your maids barges into your bedroom as you dress.
Cyl of Cydwyl has finally come! The maid elaborates that he came with an escort of twenty guards in polished and decorated armors and sixty of his personal servants. They've been all assigned rooms in the opposite side of the palace from your quarters.
The wedding is due to happen tomorrow, and of course you cannot meet your beloved till then. How will you dress for this magnaminous occassion?
A) In a traditional Cydwyllian (but still properly luxurious) dress, to impress my soon-to-be husband!
B) In my imperial evening dress - Empress must look like one, and nothing beats a grandiose dress with Imperial coat of arms sewn into it!
C) In a plain but still expensive dress, to go with dynasty's values of modesty.
D) In a exquisite red dress worn by my mother, I will make her proud tomorrow!!
E) In an expensive silver-thread dress adorned with biggest and shiniest of jewels, decorated with pins and accessories of highest quality brass and gold!
F) ALL THE DRESSES!!! Show them how it's done during Eldrican-Cydwyllian wedding in Methiant!!!!!1
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: SPAMDUNGEON! Reusable loot depository for those who dare!
« on: May 28, 2018, 11:30:25 am »
They walked down the stairs!
The way further into the dungeon is blocked by a huge slab door. Nearby mining tools and cracks and impact points on the door indicate someone tried to barge in (unsuccessfully).
On the left side of the room, there are two statues of standing warriors. They both stand in a pose as if they were supporting their hands on weapons, but one of the statues is missing its weapon. The other is clutching on a sword.
On the right side of the room, there are two statues of kneeling warriors. They both extend their arms toward the standing warriors in offering pose, but only one of the kneeling warriors have a weapon - a spear. The other is empty-handed.
Items
-Spear +0 to Meleeing (on 2nd kneeling statue)
-Sword +0 to Meleeing (on 1st standing statue)
~~Room 0003~~
The way further into the dungeon is blocked by a huge slab door. Nearby mining tools and cracks and impact points on the door indicate someone tried to barge in (unsuccessfully).
On the left side of the room, there are two statues of standing warriors. They both stand in a pose as if they were supporting their hands on weapons, but one of the statues is missing its weapon. The other is clutching on a sword.
On the right side of the room, there are two statues of kneeling warriors. They both extend their arms toward the standing warriors in offering pose, but only one of the kneeling warriors have a weapon - a spear. The other is empty-handed.
Items
-Spear +0 to Meleeing (on 2nd kneeling statue)
-Sword +0 to Meleeing (on 1st standing statue)
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Holy Roman Empire's Hurt&Heal 2.0! XVIII Century (1700s)
« on: May 28, 2018, 11:22:24 am »Spoiler: Princes(48) (click to show/hide)
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Holy Roman Empire's Hurt&Heal 2.0! XVIII Century (1700s)
« on: May 28, 2018, 11:19:42 am »Bavaria is an Elector and Prussia exists so it's, what, the 1700s?
Nup we gotta kill much more Princes first ;v
But it says "OR."
Added brackets for clarity v:
EDIT: Wait that doesn't change a thing, we in XVII Century.
EDITEDIT: Well fuck, we're actually in XVIII Century already. KILL ALL THE PRINCES!
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Holy Roman Empire's Hurt&Heal 2.0! XVI Century (1500s)
« on: May 28, 2018, 12:00:10 am »Bavaria is an Elector and Prussia exists so it's, what, the 1700s?
Nup we gotta kill much more Princes first ;v
Spoiler: Princes(48) (click to show/hide)
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Zoology Hurt and Heal: CROC ON
« on: May 27, 2018, 04:26:00 pm »
Crocodile - 41
Seal - 24
Axolotl Salamander - 18
Rhino - 20
Ankylosaurus - 28
Sauropod - 15
Tortoise - 26
Seal - 24
Axolotl Salamander - 18
Rhino - 20
Ankylosaurus - 28
Sauropod - 15
Tortoise - 26
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: SPAMKINGDOM#: Empress Ruberta I of Methiant!
« on: May 27, 2018, 04:25:15 pm »
You decide against Edicts and wars. Funds gathered from generous subjects will be spent on your wedding proceedings.
News come from the west; after half a year of unspoken truce, Eldricans and Calvendocians signed a white peace, both sides having gained nothing and losing only many able-bodied men.
Silverwork sold to local nobles brought some profits this month!
Celebrations across Methiant begin! People praise your name and pray to Pantheonist gods that Yoean dynasty be blessed and your rule be long and prosperous.
Out of many audiences you need to attend, there's one of special kind. Aland of Onwyc, an impoverished nobleman at verge of losing his ancestral home to debtors, has brought to your palace a supposedly magical artifact; an emerald blessed by Pantheonist mystics, which apparently keeps its owners in good health (Aland attests that his family was spared by illnesses and plague as far as he remembers). The stone was in his family for generations, the journals of his ancestors keeping track of it since early 900s. Quite a stone, with quite a history!
Your courtiers frown at Aland, however; because instead of offering it as a gift, he asks for quite a lot of money, amounting to what the Treasury earned from silverwork sales this year! Quite a few courtiers personally offer to drag this ungrateful dog out of your palace.
A) This is an offense against me of highest order! To dungeon with this ignoble rat!!
B) He isn't asking for that much. I will buy the stone.
C) Dismiss him, and he should be thankful I'm in a good mood today.
D) I will pay him double for the stone! He shall experience the generosity of the Empress firsthand!
1176 AD, Spring
News come from the west; after half a year of unspoken truce, Eldricans and Calvendocians signed a white peace, both sides having gained nothing and losing only many able-bodied men.
Quote
2to5
Silverwork sold to local nobles brought some profits this month!
Celebrations across Methiant begin! People praise your name and pray to Pantheonist gods that Yoean dynasty be blessed and your rule be long and prosperous.
Out of many audiences you need to attend, there's one of special kind. Aland of Onwyc, an impoverished nobleman at verge of losing his ancestral home to debtors, has brought to your palace a supposedly magical artifact; an emerald blessed by Pantheonist mystics, which apparently keeps its owners in good health (Aland attests that his family was spared by illnesses and plague as far as he remembers). The stone was in his family for generations, the journals of his ancestors keeping track of it since early 900s. Quite a stone, with quite a history!
Your courtiers frown at Aland, however; because instead of offering it as a gift, he asks for quite a lot of money, amounting to what the Treasury earned from silverwork sales this year! Quite a few courtiers personally offer to drag this ungrateful dog out of your palace.
A) This is an offense against me of highest order! To dungeon with this ignoble rat!!
B) He isn't asking for that much. I will buy the stone.
C) Dismiss him, and he should be thankful I'm in a good mood today.
D) I will pay him double for the stone! He shall experience the generosity of the Empress firsthand!
6777
Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Holy Roman Empire's Hurt&Heal 2.0! XVI Century (1500s)
« on: May 27, 2018, 04:03:10 pm »
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Last Argument of Kings OOC-Thread
« on: May 27, 2018, 03:52:45 pm »
I will lurk in this thread to steal ideas watch the proceedings ;v
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: SPAMKINGDOM#: Empress Ruberta I of Methiant!
« on: May 27, 2018, 03:51:36 pm »
MILITARY EDICTS:
Matters of military hierarchy, philosophy of war and development of military tech.
-
BUREAUCRATIC EDICTS:
Matters of administration and government.
Issue the Bill of Rights:
A standarized code of basic laws of the common peoples. Even if peasants will have nothing else left, they will always have their basic freedoms, helping ease their minds in times of emergency - and perhaps allow the spirit of liberty and humanism to blossom (for good or worse).
Establish Passage Tax: (once in effect: 1142 - 1169 AD)
All those travelers, adventurers, merchants and others are moving through the country for free! Let's establish a tax for those entering and leaving our country - this will earn us nice profits each year, although it might slow down immigration and convince some merchants to seek passage through elsewhere.
CULTURAL EDICTS:
Matters of religion, culture and art.
Establish Calendar of Festivities:
Rather than throw a festival every few years to celebrate a bontiful harvest, let's instead establish a cyclic and stable calendar of state-sponsored festivities for the whole year. This will cause a drain on the Treasury, but hey - people love festivals!
Establish Royal School of Cartography:
People come from near and far, yet we know little of the places they visit, the royal scribes clinging to rumors, hearsays and random tales of strangers. A proper society of cartographers and scholars at the House of Learning could help expand our knowledge about the region, and the continent - who knows, maybe entire world in the far future!
Proclaim Religious Equality: (once in effect: 1135 - 1172 AD)
Travelers, merchants, immigrants; they all bring new beliefs and philosophies into the country. Rather than fight those foreign influences, it might be best to allow all peoples free worship on equal level no matter the size and beliefs of the congregation, to help all different worshippers achieve a certain degree to harmony and peace.
ENFORCED REVOCATION: Prevents this Edict from being choosen again for at least 10 years after revocation.
Establish Religion Tax: (once in effect: 1154 - 1172 AD)
Various congregations are given away territories and various tax exemptions for those. With erosion of religious influences upon the state, its prime opportunity to dip our hand into prime source of income that is donations and tithes gathered by those numerous cults present in the empire. It will surely not please them, and, by extension, your subjects.
ENFORCED REVOCATION: Prevents this Edict from being choosen again for at least 10 years after revocation.
---
REVOKE EDICT: Revokes a previously implemented edict, either to cut spending, appease some disgruntled subjects, or both. On the other hand, it might tick off some other peoples, potentially causing a deadly cascade of discontent.
Late Spring, 1135 AD: Established the Fireblood Court:
Creation of a specialized military branch devoted purely to development of Fireblood arms to ensure they are aplenty and of best designs around. This will allow to centralize the production, research and budgeting of Fireblood weaponry rather than having some errant alchemists and engineers running around, trying to make things happen.
End of Year 1139 AD: Established Recruitment Offices:
Mandatory training for youths is a good thing, but after bloodier-than-usual wars, there might be shortage of men to replenish the ranks. If we were to expand on the royal bureaucracy to include offices for traveling civilian recruiters and offer citizenship grants for mercenaries and travelers looking for a new home, our Army could refill its ranks much faster.
End of Year 1140 AD: Established The Council of Statesmen:
Creation of a small council of governmental officials who will be tasked with helping the government run smoother alongside traditional advisors, and, of course, the monarch himself. This will help strengthen the Imperial Authority, even in dire times, and help pass edicts quicker, although giving even more political power away from the throne than in the past might become a source of troubles one day.
End of Year 1146 AD: Established Diplomatic Corps:
Creation of a small but highly professional cabinet of diplomats and ambassadors that would visit neighbouring countries on regular basis to strengthen ties with nearby rulers and their nobles, and maybe even develop favorable treaties with them.
Summer 1152 AD: Issued the Codex of Training Regimen:
A set of efficient (and slightly draconian) requirements and practices of training to ensure that the Army gets only the best recruits of them all. This will make the Army much better in combat, although there might be a problem to fill yearly recruitment quotas sometimes.
End of Year 1153 AD: Established the Shadowranks:
Politics often involve underhanded tactics. A castle full of commoner staff and visiting foreigners just asks for a disaster to occur. Let's have the military form a professional division of most loyal of soldiers, who would protect the Emperor, his family and important state officials, during the day, night, war, peace, revelries of festivals and monotony of daily life.
End of Year 1156 AD: Expanded Primogeniture Law:
A string of bad luck can render a monarch without a male heir or cause succession debates. Rather than risk some unpleasant consequences of such a situation, it might be better to allow a skilled female to ascend to the throne, especially if she is as good at matters of the governance as any other ruler.
End of Year 1158 AD: Enacted Settlement Policy:
Guarantee that those willing to settle in previously undeveloped lands or territories yet unclaimed by any nation will be given a certain amount of money to help further their effort. However, this might cause a severe drain on the Treasury, especially during times of sudden, mass migrations to the countryside.
End of Year 1159 AD: Introduced Elective Succession Laws:
Sometimes a firstborn might be below average in terms of his skills to rule the nation, but there might be no other alternatives left, even amongst females. Elective Succession will allow the monarch to select the most skilled to inherit the throne, even a distant (or foreign!) relative of the successor, although this might cause problems with less gifted yet highly ambitious relatives of the next ruler, as well as local nobility.
Late Autumn, 1160 AD: Proclaimed Dissolution of Cloisters:
There are some faiths that are living and dwelling in estates and keeps that once belonged to the Crown, hoarding wealth within! We should force them out, restoring the important buildings to our governance as well as profiting from the stored treasures. Obviously, the worshippers of the faiths in question will be angry about this.
End of Year 1164 AD: Established The Royal House of Learning:
Scholars scribbling down books in secluded libraries and scriptories should be a thing of the past! Let's instead establish a centre of learning, where those of intellect can exchange ideas and educate those willing to learn. It will help the nation develop technologically, although maintenance of this beacon of enlightenment will obviously require yearly costs.
End of Year 1166 AD: Adopted Fireblood Infantry Tactics:
Fireblood weapons are currently slow to load and rather inaccurate, but even one in dozen of shots is bound to hit someone. Some believe that infantry should be given hand-held Fireblood weapons, which would be fired en masse against the enemy before melee combat, while horsemen equipped with melee weapons attack the flanks in glorious charges or mows down those who were lucky to survive the rain of hot iron.
End of Year 1167 AD: Established Imperial Trade Commission:
To ensure stricter and better control of trade in the Empire and through its borders, an imperial guild of trade and commerce should be created. Its officials will keep an ever-vigilant eye on market trends, supply and demand, as well as establish and maintain favorable tariffs and taxes on goods, and help our merchants gain upper hand over foreigners. Hopefully, they will avoid price gouging, corruption, favoritism and other nasty things.
End of Year 1174 AD: Endorsed State Patronage of Arts:
To help develop the nation culturally, set aside certain amount of budget money to sponsor sculptors, poets, musicians and painters. It will be a constant drain on the Treasury, but think of how prestigious your nation will become, what with those masterpieces of art popping left and right!
Matters of military hierarchy, philosophy of war and development of military tech.
-
BUREAUCRATIC EDICTS:
Matters of administration and government.
Issue the Bill of Rights:
A standarized code of basic laws of the common peoples. Even if peasants will have nothing else left, they will always have their basic freedoms, helping ease their minds in times of emergency - and perhaps allow the spirit of liberty and humanism to blossom (for good or worse).
Establish Passage Tax: (once in effect: 1142 - 1169 AD)
All those travelers, adventurers, merchants and others are moving through the country for free! Let's establish a tax for those entering and leaving our country - this will earn us nice profits each year, although it might slow down immigration and convince some merchants to seek passage through elsewhere.
CULTURAL EDICTS:
Matters of religion, culture and art.
Establish Calendar of Festivities:
Rather than throw a festival every few years to celebrate a bontiful harvest, let's instead establish a cyclic and stable calendar of state-sponsored festivities for the whole year. This will cause a drain on the Treasury, but hey - people love festivals!
Establish Royal School of Cartography:
People come from near and far, yet we know little of the places they visit, the royal scribes clinging to rumors, hearsays and random tales of strangers. A proper society of cartographers and scholars at the House of Learning could help expand our knowledge about the region, and the continent - who knows, maybe entire world in the far future!
Proclaim Religious Equality: (once in effect: 1135 - 1172 AD)
Travelers, merchants, immigrants; they all bring new beliefs and philosophies into the country. Rather than fight those foreign influences, it might be best to allow all peoples free worship on equal level no matter the size and beliefs of the congregation, to help all different worshippers achieve a certain degree to harmony and peace.
ENFORCED REVOCATION: Prevents this Edict from being choosen again for at least 10 years after revocation.
Establish Religion Tax: (once in effect: 1154 - 1172 AD)
Various congregations are given away territories and various tax exemptions for those. With erosion of religious influences upon the state, its prime opportunity to dip our hand into prime source of income that is donations and tithes gathered by those numerous cults present in the empire. It will surely not please them, and, by extension, your subjects.
ENFORCED REVOCATION: Prevents this Edict from being choosen again for at least 10 years after revocation.
---
REVOKE EDICT: Revokes a previously implemented edict, either to cut spending, appease some disgruntled subjects, or both. On the other hand, it might tick off some other peoples, potentially causing a deadly cascade of discontent.
Late Spring, 1135 AD: Established the Fireblood Court:
Creation of a specialized military branch devoted purely to development of Fireblood arms to ensure they are aplenty and of best designs around. This will allow to centralize the production, research and budgeting of Fireblood weaponry rather than having some errant alchemists and engineers running around, trying to make things happen.
End of Year 1139 AD: Established Recruitment Offices:
Mandatory training for youths is a good thing, but after bloodier-than-usual wars, there might be shortage of men to replenish the ranks. If we were to expand on the royal bureaucracy to include offices for traveling civilian recruiters and offer citizenship grants for mercenaries and travelers looking for a new home, our Army could refill its ranks much faster.
End of Year 1140 AD: Established The Council of Statesmen:
Creation of a small council of governmental officials who will be tasked with helping the government run smoother alongside traditional advisors, and, of course, the monarch himself. This will help strengthen the Imperial Authority, even in dire times, and help pass edicts quicker, although giving even more political power away from the throne than in the past might become a source of troubles one day.
End of Year 1146 AD: Established Diplomatic Corps:
Creation of a small but highly professional cabinet of diplomats and ambassadors that would visit neighbouring countries on regular basis to strengthen ties with nearby rulers and their nobles, and maybe even develop favorable treaties with them.
Summer 1152 AD: Issued the Codex of Training Regimen:
A set of efficient (and slightly draconian) requirements and practices of training to ensure that the Army gets only the best recruits of them all. This will make the Army much better in combat, although there might be a problem to fill yearly recruitment quotas sometimes.
End of Year 1153 AD: Established the Shadowranks:
Politics often involve underhanded tactics. A castle full of commoner staff and visiting foreigners just asks for a disaster to occur. Let's have the military form a professional division of most loyal of soldiers, who would protect the Emperor, his family and important state officials, during the day, night, war, peace, revelries of festivals and monotony of daily life.
End of Year 1156 AD: Expanded Primogeniture Law:
A string of bad luck can render a monarch without a male heir or cause succession debates. Rather than risk some unpleasant consequences of such a situation, it might be better to allow a skilled female to ascend to the throne, especially if she is as good at matters of the governance as any other ruler.
End of Year 1158 AD: Enacted Settlement Policy:
Guarantee that those willing to settle in previously undeveloped lands or territories yet unclaimed by any nation will be given a certain amount of money to help further their effort. However, this might cause a severe drain on the Treasury, especially during times of sudden, mass migrations to the countryside.
End of Year 1159 AD: Introduced Elective Succession Laws:
Sometimes a firstborn might be below average in terms of his skills to rule the nation, but there might be no other alternatives left, even amongst females. Elective Succession will allow the monarch to select the most skilled to inherit the throne, even a distant (or foreign!) relative of the successor, although this might cause problems with less gifted yet highly ambitious relatives of the next ruler, as well as local nobility.
Late Autumn, 1160 AD: Proclaimed Dissolution of Cloisters:
There are some faiths that are living and dwelling in estates and keeps that once belonged to the Crown, hoarding wealth within! We should force them out, restoring the important buildings to our governance as well as profiting from the stored treasures. Obviously, the worshippers of the faiths in question will be angry about this.
End of Year 1164 AD: Established The Royal House of Learning:
Scholars scribbling down books in secluded libraries and scriptories should be a thing of the past! Let's instead establish a centre of learning, where those of intellect can exchange ideas and educate those willing to learn. It will help the nation develop technologically, although maintenance of this beacon of enlightenment will obviously require yearly costs.
End of Year 1166 AD: Adopted Fireblood Infantry Tactics:
Fireblood weapons are currently slow to load and rather inaccurate, but even one in dozen of shots is bound to hit someone. Some believe that infantry should be given hand-held Fireblood weapons, which would be fired en masse against the enemy before melee combat, while horsemen equipped with melee weapons attack the flanks in glorious charges or mows down those who were lucky to survive the rain of hot iron.
End of Year 1167 AD: Established Imperial Trade Commission:
To ensure stricter and better control of trade in the Empire and through its borders, an imperial guild of trade and commerce should be created. Its officials will keep an ever-vigilant eye on market trends, supply and demand, as well as establish and maintain favorable tariffs and taxes on goods, and help our merchants gain upper hand over foreigners. Hopefully, they will avoid price gouging, corruption, favoritism and other nasty things.
End of Year 1174 AD: Endorsed State Patronage of Arts:
To help develop the nation culturally, set aside certain amount of budget money to sponsor sculptors, poets, musicians and painters. It will be a constant drain on the Treasury, but think of how prestigious your nation will become, what with those masterpieces of art popping left and right!
6780
Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Zoology Hurt and Heal: CROC ON
« on: May 27, 2018, 03:24:03 pm »
Crocodile - 43
Seal - 24
Axolotl Salamander - 18
Rhino - 18
Ankylosaurus - 28
Sauropod - 15
Tortoise - 26
Seal - 24
Axolotl Salamander - 18
Rhino - 18
Ankylosaurus - 28
Sauropod - 15
Tortoise - 26